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TIL 54% of US 4-6 YO children, when asked to choose between Watching TV, or Spending Time With Dad, prefer TV

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9a46 TIL A Canadian lawyer Garry Hoy died in Toronto trying to prove that the glass in the windows of a 24th floor office was unbreakable by throwing himself against it. It was an act he had done twice before. The windows didn’t break but they popped out of the frame and he plunged to his death.
wLEW TIL the leadership of the Communist Party of China are mostly professional engineers, thus China is in fact a Technocracy.
Z8yBp TIL the "Awww but he's so cute" has led to a breed of dogs (pugs/bulldogs) suffering from "... breathing problems, eye prolapses, overheating, dental crowding and skin-fold dermatitis", vets say.
4kOXb TIL That, during WW II, only 30-40% of the German Army was mechanized. The remainder relied on on rail or horse drawn transportation.
Med8A TIL cult leader Jim jones was once a civil rights leader